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North Geelong Cricket Club

Locality: Geelong, Victoria

Address: Osborne Park, Swinburne St 3215 Geelong, VIC, Australia

Website: http://www.northgeelongcc.vic.cricket.com.au

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24.01.2022 With an extra weekend off to start January, a bus load of 24 Magpies went to Kyabram to support our 3 SRP Mud Dogs boys, the boys didn't disappoint either. Mitch 2/9 off 4 Alistair 1/13 off 3 Layton 13 off 16 including 2 large bombs

23.01.2022 Anyone that was at Lambys on the Sunday, or even at our Mad Monday knew what winning the flag and celebrating the right way meant to Mitchell

22.01.2022 The Christmas Break has arrived and we're sitting in a great spot!!

21.01.2022 Our next instalment of our Women's Player Profiles sees us look at the ultimate Team Player. She likes to refer to herself as the 12th Women but last year she was awarded the Kerryn Birch Best Clubperson award... Kayley Sodomaco

21.01.2022 This weekend we celebrate 150 games for Blake Troy! Blake made his senior debut in 2008/09 in the 5th XI as an Under 13s player. He went on to play 11 senior games that season over the 5th XI and 4th XI. He played in the fourths, still has an Under 13s player the next season, and snagged his first senior 5 wicket haul with 5/25 against Leopold. 2010/11 Blake really announced himself as a Senior player, playing in the thirds all season whilst still playing in the Under 15s. H...e went on to win the Bowling Average with his looping leg spin, and also took out the Andrew Vivian Medal for best player in the 3rd XI for the season. Season highlights included his 5/29 against Bell Post Hill, 6/42 against South Barwon, and he made his 2nd XI turf debut. From 2011/12 onwards, Blake has been a regular on our turf squad, but has been predominantly as a batsman since that point in time. He scored his maiden Senior half century in 2013/14, and also made a century in the Under 17s. This batting form saw him make his First XI debut in Round 7. He went on to play in the side that lost the Preliminary Final. He received Cap Number 344. Whilst the senior season ended in disappointing fashion, he finished with the Under 17s side winning the Premiership, a side that Blake was also captain of. More recently Blake has turned himself into a more than handy Medium Slow bowler with the knack of taking wickets at vital times. Not only that, but he has also taken on wicket keeping at various stages both in the 1st XI and 2nd XI. 2018/19 was a great season for him, winning the Baden Lucas Medal for best player in the second XI playing 10 games. His all round exploits a key factor. Coming into this weekend, Blake has played 149 games, made 2062 runs, taken 72 wickets and 46 dismissals and has been dismissed for a duck 11 times. He has scored 5 senior half centuries and is chasing the elusive 100. At just 24 years of age, we anticipate that Blake has not even yet reached the halfway point of what is looking like a great career for our club. Congratulations on 150 Senior Games Blake!

21.01.2022 Weekly Covid update... ~Spectators are allowed back at games ~Sharing of equipment looks like it will become available again ~Plenty of other little details are in the works... 35 days til Round 1!!!

21.01.2022 Congrats Tanner and Charlie... the club couldn't be prouder of the both of you!!!!

21.01.2022 BREAST CANCER - I’m sure we all know someone who has been affected by it. This fundraiser is to provide extra care to those who are battling it and particularly in 2020 the support Breast Cancer nurses provide is invaluable . We only have 9 more balloons to sell. Every $25 balloon sold receives a tax deductible receipt and goes into the draw for some great prizes. Every donation receives a prize. Click the link to donate and/ or for more info. Cheers, stay safe and Merry Christmas https://www.pinkstumpsday.com.au/fundraise/north-geelong-CC

20.01.2022 NGCC XMAS DINNER With Rogers Raffle run and won we now turn our attention to our always popular Xmas Dinner!! Tickets must be pre purchased by the 12th of December, don’t miss out!!

19.01.2022 This week we continue the milestones of junior players from our club with 150 Senior Games for Tim Birch. As a junior of the club with both parents being life members, there was little doubt in Tim paving a way through the club and building a senior career. He played his first season of seniors as a top age under 15 player in 2009/10 playing in our 5th XI. The first year was a learning experience where he managed 8 games. In 2010/11, Tim became acclimatised bowling to men and... took 16 wickets for the season in a successful side, highlighted with 4-14 against a East Belmont. The sides season culminated in a Grand Final win, with Tim a key member playing alongside father Rob. The following year, he made the step up to the 4th XI, taking 7 wickets for the season. Consistency was the key with Tim, and it resulted in a 3rd XI debut in 2012/13. Despite that being short lived, Tim realised he was good enough to play higher and came back to the 4ths and took a career best 6/47 off 13 overs against Geelong City. 2013/14 was an up and down season, playing most of the season in the 4th XI with a handful in the threes before missing out on finals selection, in what ended up being a 4th XI premiership. Tim ended up being 12th man on Grand Final day after taking 15 wickets for the season. After another couple of consistent wicket taking seasons, Tim finally entrenched himself in the 3rds in 2016/17 taking 18 wickets for the season. It was clear success was on the way, and it came in a big way in the season of 2017/18 where Tim took 24 wickets for the season, but it was his finals series which was the most eye opening. In the semi final he stepped up and took 5/22 off 13.4 and followed that up with 4/41 off 24 in the big dance, and was vital cog in that premiership victory. His finals stats of 9/63 off 37.4 something you could only dream of. The hard work of seasons past led to a turf debut in 2018/19 where he showed he could definitely play at the level, taking a 4 wicket haul against Leopold, with only injury forcing him out of the side, where he returned to the thirds and took another 6 wicket haul. Overall, he took 31 wickets for the season. He played another couple of turf games in 2019/20 amongst his 3rd XI games, and started off this season like a house on fire with a 5 wicket haul in round 1, and then chased down the magical 200 club wickets in Round 7. As of today, Tim has played in 149 Senior games and taken 202 wickets, Made 143 Runs, taken 46 catches and made 16 ducks. Off field Tim, has been a helping hand over the past few years with his data input into Mycricket, and has also stepped up to take on the Club Secretary role for the first time this season. We congratulate Tim on his achievements to date, and as another 25 year old, we hope there are plenty more to come.

19.01.2022 Mid Season Junior Wrap Whilst enjoying the Test today, have a read and catch up with all thing Juniors at the club!!

19.01.2022 After trying to Live Stream our Raffle Results without too much luck last night we'd just like to congratulate our winners properly. 1st Prize.. John Connolly 2nd Prize.. Peter Andjelkovic 3rd Prize.. NGCC Snapchat Syndicate ... Well done to everyone on a great night. 223 tickets were sold with all proceeds going towards what will be an amazing feature out the front of our new rooms!!

18.01.2022 This round we celebrate 200 games for another of our long serving Senior cricketers, who came up through our Junior System, Anthony Armistead. Joining the club as a 12 year old in 2001/02 due to the Hall family connection with the Armistead's, Anthony started in our Under 13s. His talent was quickly realised and made his senior debut in our 4th XI in 2003/04. In 2004/05, our Under 17s would put together an unbelievably strong side and Anthony would be an integral part of the ...side as a quality all rounder, they would go on to win the Premiership and still to this day the side gets spoken about due to the amount of talent that featured. The following year, Anthony would be rewarded for his hard work in our Senior sides with a 1st XI debut against Highton, becoming player number 300 to don the baggy black cap. Anthony would only make the 1 appearance in our 1sts that year, before finally breaking through and holding his spot the following year in 2006/07. 2006/07 really became Tone's breakout year, not only was he apart of our successful winning 1st XI Premiership side, he also claimed the 2nd XI bowling average from his work early in the season. All of this at the ripe age of 17. After 2 full years of 1st XI cricket, In 2008/09 Anthony was awarded with our 1st XI's highest honour being named the J&J Mellington award winner after tieing with cousin Sam Hall in our best and fairest Vote Count. Tone would be a valued member of our 1st XI in the years that followed up until 2013/14, when Tone found himself becoming an important all rounder in our 2nd XI for the 2nd half of the season. In the last 6 games of the season, he was able to win both the 2nd XI bowling average, as well as the 2nd XI best and fairest. For the next 6 seasons Tone made the 2nds his own, going from an important all rounder to a fully fledged opening bat. In 2016/17 Anthony made an appearance in our 3rd XI where he scored his highest individual score for the club with 101*, ironically its his only century to date for the club as the opening batsman has beed dismissed in the 90s 5 times in recent years. Overall his record speaks for itself, to date he has 3004 runs and 175 wickets which earns him a spot in the Double Club. He has 54 catches and in his 199 games, he has 20 ducks to his name. His off field record is just as if not more impressive as he's been on the committee since 2009/10, in those years he's been Secretary for 3 years, our Statistician for the past 2 years and just this year was made one of our Vice Presidents. Away from the Committee he was a Junior Coach for 6 years, Captain of our 2nd XI for 1 year and he picked up the prized RJ Allen Best Clubman Award in 2018/19. All of these accolades putting him in the box seat to soon be our next Life Member. The club has witnessed young "Ants, the baby blanket" grow into "the legend killer" and now become the proud Dad and Family man that he is today. Congratulations on 200 games for our great club Anthony!!!

18.01.2022 Notice has now been given to our members that our AGM will be held at our social rooms on Sunday 20th June starting at 11am. Unlike last year, this year we ask you all to come along and contribute to the number 1 club in Geelong!!

18.01.2022 Cal Ferg and Alistair McCann highlighted another successful day for the guys, Cal with 40 and a wicket, Al making 36, taking 3 wickets and getting a run out. Suss out all the highlights from the days play. https://youtu.be/6H5ust6G5wc

17.01.2022 Don’t let the drizzle keep you away!! We will have tables set up undercover from 12pm Pay your $10 at the bar to receive your free drink, should be a great day!

17.01.2022 The boys bounced back onto the winners list with another great batting display. The McCann Boys and Blake Troy all got starts before Tom Mathieson showed why hes the best bowler in the competition with a massive spell of bowling https://youtu.be/oMsO_Cevu-0

17.01.2022 The 2040 1st XI continues to grow with another baby boy joining the NGCC Family today. A huge congratulations to Maddie and Tom on the birth of little Van Ollie Mathieson, we cant wait until he's terrorising batsmen across Geelong!!!

17.01.2022 Great achievement from Sam Wakefield.... here's the last 200m of his 100km journey across the 21 hours. 100kms... 2 tight calves... 1 blown up knee... ... 1 Amazing effort!!! See more

17.01.2022 Cricket returned on Saturday and our guys picked up where they left off in 2020. Bowling first it was Cal Ferg with 5 scalps before the top order made light work of the run chase. https://youtu.be/AvD4ZnYhMC8

17.01.2022 Saturdays in Lockdown.... The GCA have started posting old photos from the Geelong Advertiser archives from 25 years ago... that got us thinking about some throwback of our own.... How many of these North Geelong cricketers can you name.

17.01.2022 A Nice touch by Geelong cc having former NGCC juniors Dom McGlinchey present debutant Liam Blackford his cap. Liam looked comfortable in Geelong's middle order finishing 39 not out off 39 balls.

16.01.2022 The boys suffered their first loss in a tight contest at the weekend. Despite the loss there we're still plenty of highlights to come out of the day

16.01.2022 Another day, Another 100.. this time Sam Hall brings up his 14th Century as we make 208

16.01.2022 Massive Shoutout to our boy!! Baggy Black last month, Baggy Blue today... onwards and upwards from here Liam.. all the best!!!

16.01.2022 PAYMENT PLAN AVAILABLE Tickets are flying out the door for Rogers Remote Raffle, to make things easier for our members we’ve decided to offer payment plan options. 10 x $10 payments ... 4 x $25 payments If you start $10 a week before this coming Saturday you will have purchased your ticket in full just in time for the big draw!! Any questions don’t hesitate to get in touch!

15.01.2022 Well done Sammy

15.01.2022 With Cricket Season not far away, its time we focus on our Women's side. Last week we announced our coach, now its time to meet the girls... Starting with, the coach, Haylea Fitzsimmons

15.01.2022 With training kicking off last night we must now start getting familiar with doing things the Covid Way. Last night the guys started signing in via our NGCC QR Code. This will become the normal with everyone having to sign in upon entry to both training and game days. Im sure we will have to do the same at away Venues as well. All it takes is a simple scan of your camera. We have found a problem that some of the older phones didn't allow scanning so we simply ask that u quickly download a free QR scanner from your app store and fill in the sign in form. As the guys found out last night it only takes a few seconds to do.

15.01.2022 A DAY FOR LEGS Our Co Tennants the North Geelong Football Club, along with Corio Community Sports Club, North Shore Football & Netball Club and St Mary's Sporting Club are calling all past and present local football players and supporters to come along and help support local football legend Legs Boothroyd and his family as he faces a sudden health battle. A fierce competitor on the field who won many battles across the four sides mentioned above are now calling on all team ...mates, opponents and supporters to help legs come out on top once again. The multiple 100+ goal kicker is one of the most genuine people you will ever meet, loves a laugh and a story and there isn’t anything he wouldn’t do to help out around the clubs and people he crossed paths with over his footballing journey.

14.01.2022 Its a big day/night for one of our former juniors Tanner Bruhn with the AFL Draft taking place tonight. Tanner is predicted to be a top 10 prospect. Tanner played 10 games of Senior cricket including becoming player 356 and playing 4 1st XI games before Football commitments took over. Along with Tanner, another former Junior in Charlie Lazarro is also a high chance to be picked up by an AFL side tonight.... All the best boys!!!

14.01.2022 And just like that... after a big weekend we jump from 6th to top.... Its a long season

14.01.2022 With so many uncertainties on the season its so welcoming that we can say that Feb 6th will be our Past Players Day!!

13.01.2022 The 1s get done in a thrilling finish

13.01.2022 The GCA cricket show based a whole segment on their program to our Past Players Day on Saturday.. Great stuff Wes Cusworth and GCA Media!!

13.01.2022 The 17th of December(tomorrow) is a big day for Sam Wakefield... so much so 5 years on tomorrow hes going to be running 100kms in a day.. Massive effort!! For those that haven't donated and would like to do so, Jump on the Link and help Sam out.. https://community-spirit.raisely.com/samuel-wakefield

12.01.2022 Not a bad way to end 2020 for one of our Under 15 players... Ribhya Syan.. From her 6 overs she picked up 5/8 against the top side Bell Post Hill/Geelong West!!

12.01.2022 The weekend that was and had just about everything!!!

12.01.2022 Cricket in 2020/21 will be looking very different. As it stands now we're hoping for an Oct 17 start with lots and lots of Covid rules in place. The Club has been busy working behind the scenes on a return to training and return to play Covid Safe Plan. It's been ticked off today and will be available for everyone to access. With training kicking off tomorrow we have in place a few select rules that will need to be adhered too. ~Firstly if you have symptoms and are feeling u...nwell, simply stay at home and get tested. Once you've had the test, remain isolated until the results become available. ~Upon arrival you will be told where your group is to train, from there you leave your bag and equipment in the selected area and only mingle within your selected group. ~ Masks are mandatory, unless batting bowling or fielding. If warm ups involve strenuous exercise, masks may be removed. ~ Everyone will register their attendance upon arrival and leaving. ~ Hand Sanitiser will be available at stations throughout our entire complex. ~ We have access to 1 net on the main ground, and Nets 1 and 4 on the outside ground, as well as centre wicket being available if required. Training groups will be no more then 10 and players cant cross between groups during the session. ~ Sharing of equipment is forbidden. Any fielding that will be done, players will be asked to Sanitise before the drill begins. Those balls will then be heavily sanitised at the end of the session. There will also be no sharing of Balls by the bowlers. No Sweat or Saliva to be used and bowlers will have to fetch their own ball. ~ The coaches will be on hand to give directions to maintain the safety of everybody involved in training and game day. As mentioned, this season will be like no other, especially early days when Supporters are asked to stay away. We'll need you to show your support anyway you can and get behind our guys as we go to task on season 2020/21.

12.01.2022 You heard the news... All Cricket is off for the weekend and coming days... The club will re-open on Thursday Hopefully. Stay Safe!!

11.01.2022 Junior Raffle Prize Great for the Kids!!! Drawn this Sunday at the kids Xmas Party.... $2 a ticket or 3 for $5. Thanks to SJM Custom Sports and Brayden McGregor for their donations. See Alicia Elliott for the tickets...

11.01.2022 It was another clinical team effort again on Saturday as the batters let their bats do the talking, including taking 45 off the last 2 overs of the innings. The bowlers then did their bit as the boys ran out comfortable winners. https://youtu.be/LK2e0SYHSaw

11.01.2022 Women's Coaching Announcement The North Geelong Cricket Club is delighted to announce the appointment of Casey Meehan and Lachlan Hayes as co-coaches for our senior women's section for 2021/2022. Both Casey and Lachlan are 1st XI premiership players, Lachlan in his role as opening bowler and Casey was one of the grand final heroes with 39* off 32 deliveries. Both are quality young men who will bring further connection between the senior men's and senior women's groups.... We would like to take this opportunity to thank Haylea Fitzsimmons for her time in the role her professionalism has us in good stead for the future. We look forward to the next step in our exciting women's cricket journey, all the best Lachie and Case!

11.01.2022 Its with Great Sadness that we announce the Passing of another of our cherished Life Members Reg Dean. Reg was a member of a winning 1st XI premiership as well as scoring a Century in the 1961/62 2nd XI premiership. All up Reg played 194 games scoring 5187 runs including 7 centuries. He was also a part time bowler when he could, picking up 60 wickets including a 1st XI Hat Trick in 1959/60. On these stats alone Reg was named in our Pre 1960's Team on Team of the Century Night. Reg also sits in an esteemed group of Life members who are both Life members of the NGFC and NGCC. We send our condolences to the family. RIP Reggie Dean.

11.01.2022 Wanna know what we got up to on the weekend.... If you've got a spare 10 minutes.... Check this out... its got a bit of everything.... Vass and Blake's 100 run stand... Then Layton and Sam's 150 run stand, combined with Sam's fine 100 and finishing with our bowlers doing a number on Murghie

10.01.2022 Exciting Steps towards our new Training Facility

10.01.2022 We're now officially at the half way point in the season... Not a bad view!!

09.01.2022 Finally the footage you've wanted to see since 7pm Saturday. Our guys batting first and grinding out 7/151 before the boys bolted down the screws and dried up the runs with another sublime bowling and fielding performance. https://youtu.be/F2V1tBujTYc

09.01.2022 Women's Player Profile time. Tonight we've got a former U13 Junior player who returned last year to have a crack with our Senior Women's side.. Kirralee Lewis

09.01.2022 Our 2 Darwin CC boys both got amongst the runs yesterday. Cossie steering his side home with an unbeaten 88, whilst Brissle backed up his last game score of 87 with another 57.

09.01.2022 Women's Player Profile time... this time we're profiling a rookie who has made the cross from Footy to Cricket.. Emmy Van Doren

08.01.2022 Darwin CC boys Cossie and Blake both playing in the B Grade 1 day Grand Final today kicking off 1.30pm Geelong time. Follow the link and watch the boys in action!! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7ynhddVyZec&feature=youtu.be

08.01.2022 Coaching Appointment! We'd like to officially announce Haylea Fitzsimmons as our Women's Senior Coach for 2020/21. Haylea will take over the reigns from her partner Jeff who will focus on his Presidency role. Haylea started her first year of cricket last year on fire taking 3/7 on debut, but she claims that may have been a fluke.... ''I may not have been the best cricketer in the team last year, more a fluke bowler, but after doing my ACL, I'm also not one to just sit on the sidelines and just watch. Thats why I'm taking on the role of Coach along with scorer, umpire, photographer and number 1 supporter for the girls'' With Rob Birch and a rotating Senior roster helping out at training, we wish Haylea and the girls all the best for season 2020/21. Stay tuned for their Player Profiles in the coming days.....

08.01.2022 How good are Premierships.... The Darwin Cricket Club boys claimed victory today with our boy Cossie coming up clutch. Chasing 120 to win Cossie steered the boys to victory with an unbeaten 53*. Blake was with him at the end as the guys won with 12 overs to spare.

08.01.2022 The North Geelong family continues to grow and its a big congratulations to Tone and Jess as we have our newest recruit. Logan Nathan Armistead was born yesterday morning with everything going well for the new parents. Congrats guys, all the best!!

08.01.2022 4 Clean Sweeps in a row

08.01.2022 142 Balls 17 Sixes 16 Fours 212 Runs... Casey Meehan had a day out Saturday!!

07.01.2022 At the beginning of the decade he was captaining our Under 17s and making tons, now he's finished it in the GCA team of the Decade... Well played Tom!! Zoom in to read full article

07.01.2022 A few connections problems but here's Part 1 of Roger's draw

07.01.2022 Yesterday afternoon the Division 1 assessments were handed out. Not only did we top the 2020/21 leader board, we've hit the top in the 2 year rolling average as well... A great place to be!!

07.01.2022 Our Christmas Parties are so big we spread them over 2 days... After the adults have wrapped up their Christmas Party, we wake up and do it all again on Sunday the 20th of December as Santa comes and visits the kids in the most Covid Safe way possible!! If interested, contact Keryn Birch with the details below!

07.01.2022 A big weekend for our man Bob Saturday beating South Sunday winning a Mud Dogs premiership

06.01.2022 Your chance to win a $5000 Voucher!!! Tickets are moving along nicely for our R.J Allen Terrace Raffle. Have you bought yours yet... Details are on the poster below. All proceeds are going towards the build of our Newest social area that will be the place to sit on a Saturday afternoon!!

06.01.2022 4 DAYS TO GO!!! That’s right only 4 days until we hand out a 5k voucher!! Don’t miss out on the chance to win and support our great club in the process.... The winning tickets will be drawn this Saturday night at 9pm, rooms open as usual, will read out the days results and meals will be on! We will also live stream the draw for those unable to make it.

06.01.2022 One of our Major Sponsors Viva likes to keep us up to date with all things happening at the Refinery, including their huge plans for the Gas Terminal Project

06.01.2022 The boys bounced back in the best way possible Saturday!!

05.01.2022 14.5 wins from the past 3 weeks as our guys get back to back clean sweeps!!

05.01.2022 6 out of 7 Sweeps

05.01.2022 A huge few weeks coming up off field!! Launch the New Nest is less than two weeks away. Following that Ladies Day Paint & Sip on the 6th of March! Tickets for Ladies Day must be purchased by the 21st of February, don’t miss out!

05.01.2022 He may have only been at the club for 5 seasons but his Senior cricket record speaks for itself.... On Saturday Damian Vassiliou brought up his 10,000th run in Senior Cricket. His full year by year records are in the comments

04.01.2022 Intra Club Hitout The boys took to the field this morning in their first outing for Season 2020/21... Its going to be a season with a difference as Social Distancing and Covid Protocols look to become the norm. The 30 over a side hitout was good for our guys to get used to the way the season will be treated as masks, hand sanitizer and the non sharing of equipment will take some time to get used to.... On the field Cam 46, Layton 45, and Vass 33 impressed with the bat whilst recruit Tim Arnel looked sharp and lively and Cal Ferg toiled hard into the stiff breeze. All in all, everyone got something out of the day as we push on and into Season 20/21.

04.01.2022 How lucky did we get when the Hall Family decided that their family home was going to be in Swinburne St

02.01.2022 Our 3rd Player Profile to look at for the Women's team is our opening batter. Alyce Lockwood. Locky as she prefers was only dismissed 3 times in the first season and the coach already has plans for her to continue that form this year.

01.01.2022 A few connections problems but here's Part 2 of Roger's draw